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The Black Cone, Monument to Disobedience

Gotta love this climbable monument in Reykjavík. I don’t know if you’re supposed to climb it but I didn’t think I could tell these kids not to get on it once they read the plaque.

Two kids climb a rock with a black cone splitting it. A plaque reads “THE BLACK CONE, MONUMENT TO CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
"When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and the most Indispensable of duties."
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1793)” in English and Icelandic.
THE BLACK CONE, MONUMENT TO CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
“When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and the most Indispensable of duties.”
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1793)

Magical Clouds of Central Park

It’s a beautiful misty spring morning and I climb the stairs out of the Q train. I look up and see one of those magical New York sights. The clouds are hanging so low that I can see them actually flow through the trees of Central Park.

Beautiful low clouds flowing through Central Park
I’m struck still. This is so rare and beautiful.  I’ve got to share a picture of it with you. You need to see these low clouds hanging out in the park, slowly ambling by.

Of course, then I turn around and look behind me, because who can trust beauty to just be simple and perfect.
Clouds clearly coming out of a steam pipe in the road

Ruined Cathedrals

This photo is of St. Quentin Cathedral in northern France, which burned down in August 1917.

via Unseen World War I photos: Destroyed Cathedrals.

A ruined cathedral is a special kind of place. All the synergistic work of man, all that drive to order and organization – laid back to chaos and dirt so quickly.

Speaking of the synergistic work of man, this is the first post I’ve ever made publicly from Orbital Feed Reader!